Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.